AS chats with Ambinder ("Ambers").
My thoughts:
If politics includes oratory, a point hard to disagree with, what has Obama persuaded people of? What argument has he won? He's inspired people along the lines of "follow me".
We'll see more if he can get out and sell his policy ideas in the way, say, Ronald Reagan was able to.
I'm not sure it is the 'power of youth' at play, except as that intersects with authenticity, including an authenticity of endeavor, if you will, a "Mr. Smith".